Comment by doodlesdev
1 day ago
How much does one of those cost in the US? Here in Brazil, your notebook is worth as much as a used Honda Fit, which seems absolutely insane. For comparison, the ThinkPad I'm currently running cost me 1/20 of how much this MBP costs here, leaving me with over $8.000 to spend with LLM inference (if I actually spent money with that).
I purchased mine for approximately $4400 AUD before the price hikes. That unit is now ~$5100 AUD.
I use my MBP essentially as my workstation, it's almost always plugged in. I have a MBA (M4, 24GB RAM) that I picked up for ~A$1500 or so, and that's an amazing daily driver. I don't do local LLM inference on that unit, I can just hit my own APIs (via LM Studio) on the MBP over Tailscale.